Washing-up Liquid

Make your own, non-toxic Bide washing-up liquid at home!

Here are the instructions to make 1 Litre of Washing up Liquid Concentrate.

We use Lemon Essential Oil, but you can choose any essential oil that takes your fancy.

Ingredients:

300g Sodium C14/C16 Olefin Sulphonate
150g Lauryl Glucoside
105g Coco Glucoside
185g Water
185g Table Salt
75g Citric acid
<1g lemon essential oil

Method:

Mix Water, Salt and Citric Acid in a bowl, adding a few drops of your favourite essential oil.

Separately mix C14/16, Lauryl and Coco.

Gently combine.

Pour into your favourite washing up bottle and dilute with water 2:1, to make your finished washing up liquid.

Store the remainder of the washing-up liquid concentrate in an airtight container. It will need a gentle shake before refilling your washing-up liquid bottle.

Ingredients can be sourced from UK Stockists The Soapery, Soap Kitchen and Bayhouse Aromatics.

Dishwasher Powder

Here is the recipe to make 400g of our Dishwasher Powder

Ingredients:

335g Sodium Bicarbonate
86g Citric Acid
9g BiDE concentrated washing up liquid ( you can find this recipe on our Instagram grid)
0.5g Peppermint Essential Oil

Method:

The sum of the ingredients needed is greater than the completed 400g of finished product. This is because the reaction produces water vapour and carbon dioxide which evaporate into the air.

Mix all ingredients in a large container, adding a few drops of your favourite essential oils as needed.

Re-mix every hour until the consistency is evenly granular and dry.

Store in an airtight container.

All of the ingredients can be purchased from UK suppliers such as The Soapery, Soap Kitchen and Bayhouse Aromatics.

Toilet Scrub

Make our eco Toilet Scrub at home.

Here is everything you need to get started.

Did you know that our toilet scrub is not just for the lav?

It’s brilliant at cleaning sinks and hobs. The epsom salts lend a gently abrasive hand.

Ingredients:

198g Bicarbonate of soda
110g Epsom salt
90g Citric acid
1g Grapefruit oil
1g Eucalyptus oil

Method:

Mix all ingredients in a bowl, adding a few drops of your favourite essential oils as needed.

Mix all ingredients in a large container, adding a few drops of your favourite essential oils as needed.

Re-mix every hour until the consistency is evenly granular.

Store in an airtight container.

All of the ingredients can be purchased from UK suppliers such as The Soapery, Soap Kitchen and Bayhouse Aromatics.

Award-Winning Laundry Powder

Make our awarding winning Eco Laundry Powder at home. Named Sustainable Detergent of the year by Marie Claire in 2023.

Once you have made our laundry powder, place 1-2 dessert spoonfuls into the drum of your machine before adding your laundry.

It’s brilliant at cleaning sinks and hobs. The epsom salts lend a gently abrasive hand.

Ingredients for 800g of Laundry powder:

167g Sodium Carbonate
519g Sodium Bicarbonate
112g Dry Surfactant C14/C16
4g Lavender essential oil OR 3g Orange and 3g Bergamot oil

Method:

Mix all ingredients in a bowl, adding a few drops of your favourite essential oils as needed.

That’s it!

Store in an airtight container.

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All of the ingredients can be purchased from UK suppliers such as The Soapery, Soap Kitchen and Bayhouse Aromatics.

Toilet Bombs

This is the last in our series of recipes.

Our Toilet Freshening Bombs were the first product we ever made and sold.

These little fizzing beauties are a perfect way to freshen your toilet mid-clean.

Ingredients for Toilet Freshening Bombs:

150g Sodium Bicarbonate
100g Citric Acid
0.2g Lavender oil
0.1g Peppermint oil
0.1g Eucalyptus oil

Method:

You will need a spray bottle filled with water and an ice-cube tray.

Mix the Sodium Carbonate and citric acid inside a bowl and add essential oils gradually.

Using the spray bottle, mist the powders with water, mixing at all times, until the mixture resembles damp sand.

You are looking for the mix to form in your hand.

Then you can fill the ice cube tray with the mixture, pressing firmly.

Immediately tip the tray over and allow the blocks to fall out and leave to dry.

Don’t forget to share this far and wide so that more people can enjoy our recipes.

All of the ingredients can be purchased from UK suppliers such as The Soapery, Soap Kitchen and Bayhouse Aromatics.